Welcome to the Simon Says Stamp Reason To Smile Blog Hop! The release has stamps, dies, embossing powders, and even FELT! Yes, felt :) Made in Italy, It's the most perfect felt for die cutting! I stamped and embossed the beautiful floral and butterfly images from the Friendship Blooms Stamp...

What? It hasn't been another 3 years? Well, only 1 day later, and I've actually created a new piece to share. This is also for the Documented Life Project. This week's journal prompt is Words with Friends, and the art challenge is Writing. Above is a close-up of the right hand page and below i...

Well, I'm running a little behind. Nothing too unusual about that. At least I am staying on track and continuing this project. This is my interpretation of this week's theme, rather last week's theme, which was: Art Challenge: Under Paper (paper on your work table that gets all inky while you...

Well, I'm running a little behind. Nothing too unusual about that. At least I am staying on track and continuing this project. This is my interpretation of this week's theme, rather last week's theme, which was: Art Challenge: Under Paper (paper on your work table that gets all inky while you...

Well, I'm running a little behind. Nothing too unusual about that. At least I am staying on track and continuing this project. This is my interpretation of this week's theme, rather last week's theme, which was: Art Challenge: Under Paper (paper on your work table that gets all inky while you...

What? It hasn't been another 3 years? Well, only 1 day later, and I've actually created a new piece to share. This is also for the Documented Life Project. This week's journal prompt is Words with Friends, and the art challenge is Writing. Above is a close-up of the right hand page and below i...

I liked my last Norah Gaughan project, this capelet, so much, that I decided to try another. This one, straight off of her beautiful new website in her Volume 15 pattern book. It's called Tipperary. In a mere five more repeats, this small start will grow into a beautiful, full shawl, that I ...

Well, I'm running a little behind. Nothing too unusual about that. At least I am staying on track and continuing this project. This is my interpretation of this week's theme, rather last week's theme, which was: Art Challenge: Under Paper (paper on your work table that gets all inky while you...

It has been over THREE YEARS since my last blog post! I knew it had been a while, but I can't believe it's been that long. A lot has happened during these years including my mother's death and the birth of another grandson. Losing my mother took away any desire to create. Thankfully, that desire...

My disasterous Cables and Lace Capelet is fixed. Just like that! I ripped off the oversized collar and reknit it on smaller needles and made it shorter. Suddenly, I have a beautiful capelet that makes me think of something Claire should be wearing on the Outlander TV show. The combination o...

I have a renewed obsession with making fabric cuffs. I stitched up simple fabric collages, cut them into cuff strips, sewed over them and embellished them. Here is a close up of the beaded ruffle I made. A close up showing my polymer buttons and the resin paper I sewed onto the cuff. A...

For one of my art groups, we have a surprise Christmas gift exchange; we each make one present, but we don't know who will get it (we draw numbers). This is fun because you don't have the responsibility of making a gift for someone specific; you just make a present. I decided to make a journal. ...

I just finished a fabric prayer flag swap (5 for 5 or multiple of 5 for multiple of 5). I sent them all off this afternoon (except for the Kalamazoo participants, to whom I will hand deliver flags this week). It was an exchange of 4 inch by 6 inch portrait oriented flags. There were 27 participa...

For reasons that are not entirely clear to me, I am on a quest to make as many of my own art tools as possible. I have been playing with stencils lately, and I decided that I wanted to use some face stencils and that I would make my own for collages, journaling, and possibly for fabric. This, I ...

New book heading to Twigs at University Pickers. It has a needle felted, hand beaded cover, with 3 signatures of assorted papers.

Sometimes, when I am not feeling particularly creative, I make component parts to be used later. I feel a batch of doll making coming up (you've seen my faces on a previous post) and I decided to patch together some fabrid pieces to use with the dolls (you know, the ones that don't exist yet). ...

Oops, I thought I had included my doll in my last post. So, here she is. I started another one yesterday.

Cape Town was a delightful surprise to both me and Annie, It's a beautiful city with a beautiful shorline and a busy and fun waterfront. Our hotel was by the waterfront. Our first morning there, we took a city tour, going up to Table Rock (the line for the cable car was too long, so we didn't ta...

The Elephant is Slow to Mate by D. H. Lawrence The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate; he finds a female, they show no haste they wait for the sympathy in their vast shy hearts slowly, slowly to rouse as they loiter along the river-beds and drink and browse and das...

I'm working on making some Halloween cards to send out as random acts of art. The skeletons come from photos I took at the Halloween store (th background on the one with three skeletons is a dark cemetery - hard to tell from the scan. The background on the two skeletons card is one of my attempt...

A day along the Italian Riviera.

The afternoon in Assisi started out with rain and ended up with sunlight.

I call this sequence the Egg Lady. It's one of the first images I worked on in Photoshop and I use her a lot.

I dyed some scarves yesterday, planning ahead for Christmas gifts. They're all silk and I dyed them all using the "scrunchie" method I learned from Glennis Dolce at ArtUnraveled.